While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
The old king bore up for
nearly a hundred years, the
name of Clia Kau Cho Ka ma. He was the grandfather of Oshkosh "the brave,"
and Osh Ka He Now Niew his brother, called "the young man," who was born
in 1806.
"The old king" died in 1821, while on a visit to
Prairie du Chien with some of his relatives. He was then 100 years old and
nearly blind. He was a man of good sense, but no public speaker, and was
highly esteemed by his nation. His certificate as grand chief, given by
Governor Haldimond of Canada, in 1778, is in the rooms of the Historical
society at Madison.
In 1728 when the French and Indian army came against
the Wisconsin Indians, they attacked a Menomonee village on the west shore
of Green Bay. At the same time the Sacs were located on the present site
of Green Bay. "Old King's village" was half a mile up river from the old
French fort at the bay, until the Menomonee were removed to Poygan in
1836, and must have been located about 1740. It was there in 1763 and
hence was about a century old. His grandsons, Oshkosh and "young man," led
their tribe to Poygan in 1836. and Oshkosh resisted many attempts of the
government to induce them to remove west of the Mississippi river, and in
1856, led their tribe up the Wolf river to their present reservation
located within a few miles of their ancient home on the banks of the bay.
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